Running 100 Marathons in 100 Days with Brooks Bash

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0	What kept ringing in my ear was when I finished the tour, I had averaged 23 miles a day.
0:05.5	And so everyone was like, oh, you ran a marathon a day.
0:08.2	And in my head, I was like, well, no, I didn't.
0:10.4	I ran 23.
0:11.2	A marathon is 26.2.
0:13.3	And so then I was like, well, that's interesting.
0:16.0	I will run a marathon every single day until we hit our funding goal.
0:20.4	And that's where it started.
0:25.6	Brooks Bash is an entrepreneur and endurance athlete who's made a habit of chasing wild ideas.
0:32.4	In 2023, he ran a relay from Canada to Mexico to promote his natural energy drink company.
0:39.0	Later that year, Brooks ran 100 marathons and 100 days.
0:43.5	For reference, that's like running from L.A. to New York.
0:47.0	Three weeks after he finished his 100th marathon, Brooks took on another endurance challenge,
0:52.9	running a 320-mile race from Santa Monica to Las Vegas.
0:58.0	Logging so many miles in such a short period of time might seem extreme.
1:03.1	But for Brooks, chasing these wild ideas has helped him understand the limits of his body and his mind.
1:09.2	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
1:12.9	an REI Co-Oaf Studios production presented by Capital One and the REI Co-Op MasterCard.
1:23.3	Brooks Bash, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living. Hey, thank you so much for having me.
1:28.1	So talk to me.
1:28.8	You're not just like some average Joe who shows up and starts running marathons.
1:34.4	How did you get into running?
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